Confucius Quotes, Lakes Quotes, Circles Quotes

No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

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Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it 'jal', others at another place and call it 'pani', and still others at a third place and call it 'water'. The Hindus call it 'jal', the Christians 'water', and the Moslems 'pani'. But it is one and the same thing.

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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

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Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

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Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.

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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

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Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

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The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

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My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!

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I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool, And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake.

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He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

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I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Wind Quotes

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Lakes Quotes

What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

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Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'

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The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

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There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Home Quotes , Lakes Quotes

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Poetry Quotes